Mercosur

• Wednesday, August 31st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Record spring ozone layer hole forecasted

  The ozone layer hole over the Antarctica began expanding in mid August and has reached ten million square kilometres, an area equivalent to Europe, according to readings from the Envisat satellite belonging to the European Space Agency.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  The Brazilian Navy's atomic bomb ambition

  An atomic bomb as powerful as those dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was almost built in Brazil at the beginning of the nineties under the supervision of the Brazilian armed forces.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Flexibility, the US economy “most valued asset”

  The US economy has weathered reasonably well the steep rise in spot and future prices for crude oil and natural gas in the last two years said Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan who also highlighted “flexibility” as the economy's “most valued asset”.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil: lack of reforms greater threat than political crisis

  Economists downplayed the impact of the Brazilian political crisis on the economy but warned that crucial reforms are being delayed as Congress concentrates in the corruption allegations.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  “I did everything possible to make Argentina loose Malvinas war”

  ”I did everything possible to make Argentina loose the (Malvinas) war”, is the spectacular introduction to a Chilean television program to be aired Wednesday night with a very special guest, General Fernando Matthei, former Commander of the Chilean Air Force and responsible for the secret coordination with the British in 1982.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Significant drop in Chilean unemployment

  Unemployment in Chile reached 8,6% in the May-July quarter of this year, which represent a considerable drop from the 9,7% of a year ago, according to the latest release from the Chilean Statistics Institute.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS calls for extradition to Venezuela of anti-Castro agent

  Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza has called on the United States Justice to extradite the anti-Castro agent Luis Posada to Venezuela, and so contribute with the world war on terrorism.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Record winter season in Chile's ski resorts

  The tourism winter season in Chile has been described as the best in the last five years with a significant jump in the number of foreign visitors, reported Oscar Santelices head of the Chilean Tourist Office, Sernatur.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil's ruling party housecleaning operation aborted

  The man hand-picked by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to restore trust in the ruling Workers Party (PT) amid Brazil's worst political scandal in more than a decade announced Monday that he will not seek re-election as party chairman next month.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Squid ban extended for the rest of the season

  The Argentine Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) unanimously decided to keep the ban on squid (Illex argentinus) north of parallel 44º South for the rest of the season ”given the poor performance of the Buenos Aires-North Patagonian Stock (SBNP) cruise survey and maturity assessment”.